Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Dr. Nicholas Partos, chain-store druggist, wealthy manufacturer of chocolate-coated pills, awoke and found a burglar prowling through his Fifth Avenue mansion. The burglar hit Dr. Partos on the head with a piece of iron pipe. Dr. Partos tore off the burglar's mask, chased him downstairs, bashed him repeatedly on the head with his fist. Allowing the burglar to run out of the house, Dr. Partos returned upstairs to reassure Mrs. Partos who observed the burglar fleeing into Central Park. In his haste he had left his coat, hat and shoes in the house, was running...
...rebellion was brewing and he was absolutely without funds. In order to inspire his enemies with fear he ordered the massacre of 200 political prisoners. That strategy failed to tally, for the enraged populace grabbed President Sam from the French legation, where he had taken refuge, and literally tore him into bits. Pandemonium broke out, and on the following morning, July 28, 1915, Admiral Caperton landed troops and the American intervention began...
Fired by the speeches they had heard in the hall, the crowd eddied out upon Boston Common where was displayed a Coast Guard recruiting sign, guarded by Chief Water Tender George Briggs. "Dirty murderers!" cried the crowd as it became a mob, knocked down Briggs. tore his recruiting poster to shreds, kicked its frame to bits about the Common. Briggs fled in a taxi...
Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...stage again. Very soon she was unfaithful to him. simple-minded Coke suspecting nothing. Regan saw what was going on, tried to warn Coke; they drifted apart. Once when Regan was drunk he spoke out; Coke knocked him down. Then they were enemies : Regan tore up their contract, coached Rattler O'Keefe to take Coke's title away from...